Feed mechanism for seeders



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CHMHSM FR SEEDERS.

FEED M APPLCATIQ FILED DCT. 23.1920.

@muted Apr. 4, 1922.

f charge port 16.

check-row marker 29 is attached by a chain 30 to a transverse bar 31 secured to the frame side bars 2G; This bar 3l .is provided with n. mnltiplicityof longitudinallyA spaced perforations at either end to receive the chain 3U and permit the checltrow marker 29 to ne attached on either side of the seeder and at different points tovary lthe width of the rows, A flat scm'p e1"l2` issecured to the bottom board T and arranged to keep the 4wheel Stand furrow opener llclean.

Aln ordinary vseeding, one -of the seed plates 1.*4 will be-thrown out of action by detachine' the saine from the cross arins Tl'ievother seed plate lQas the same is re ciprocated under the advance movement of theyseeder, releases seed collected inl the seed cells 19'as said cells are successiyely brought into registration with the respective dis From said discharge port` the seed will roll down the seed spoilt .l-T and be deposited in the furrow as the saine is fornied the furrow opener 12. Any suitl able means. not shown. may be provided for covering the seed. The distance the seeds are planted apart in the. furrow depends on the longitudinal spacingr oll the seed'cellsl 1th and to vary this distance, interchangeable seed )lates with differently spaced seed cells will lie provided.-

In some instances, it is possible and desirable. with certain kinds of plants, to sow two different kinds of seeds 1n the same fur` row` 'and in which case, the other or second seedl plate ,will be connected to the cross larms 22 and the seed cells intlns seed plate are soarrang'ed 4and spaced as to only replate andhaving a constantly open aperture that is laterally offset from the discharge port` a brush under the false l'iottoinl ar ranged to close said cell when in registration with, the discharge port.

2. A seeder having a seed box with a dis'` charge port, a reciprocating seed plate in the seed box and having a plurality of seedcollectingr cells arranged to be `successively brought into registration with the discharge port, a false bottom in the'seed box overlying' the seed plate and having two c0n- 'stantly open apertures laterally spaced in the direction of the `movement of the seed plate and located one on each side of the discharge port, and a brush under the false bottom between said two apertures and arranged to close said cells when brought into i'eg'istration with the discharge port.

In testimony whereof I alix my signature,

JOHN T. GERMAN. 

